Written Quotes
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I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.
Neil Peart Rush -
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.
Charles Dickens
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I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.
William Gibson -
I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails -
I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.
Jason Lee -
In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.
Paul Dini -
The written word is everything.
John Drinkwater -
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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What really put me over the top was receiving a packet of hundreds of hand-written thank you notes, telling me how the kids were inspired and excited about the Cube project.
Scott Cohen -
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
Horace -
I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.
Mike Gordon -
He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
Thomas Aquinas -
The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
Andreï Makine -
Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take a look at what I was making, I had for the first time in my life written a large grip of songs completely alone and without any expectations or plans of what they would be for.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
Marcel Proust -
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
Paul Auster -
'Deadwood' was just a wonderful opportunity for me. Outside of my own things that I've written, I hadn't had the opportunity to play a character with that amount of depth and range.
Ray McKinnon -
When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.
Walter E. Williams -
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
William Faulkner -
It's interesting when something's written about you, and there's comments after.
Alison Stewart
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle -
There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
Joanne Rowling -
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
Miguel de Icaza -
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
Israel Horovitz